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I am still in the process of working on my hair dresser’s logo, but here is the newest version:

She chose a few font types she liked & sent me some examples of decorative arrows. I chose the font called Bromello, created outlines & manually smoothed the edges. I then drew my own decorative arrow & eyebrow-like ornaments for underlining “Brows and Beauty”.

“DannerHolz Whitetails is a World Class Trophy Buck Whitetail Hunting and Deer Breeding facility located in the middle of the Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains.”

They requested a logo with antlers, but I thought I could go 1 step further & create the entire deer. I decided that to create a truly unique hunting logo would be to first hand draw an original illustration from photos I had found doing my research. 10-point bucks seem to be the most desired, so I chose a beautiful photo of a 10-pointer.

Here is the final product:

They had a specific camouflage pattern & corresponding bright hunting orange color they wanted to use for printing on shirts & hats, so I made sure the logo would be legible by adding the white outline.

They loved the design & the illustration of the 10-point buck – as do I. I can’t wait to see the shirts & hats!

My daughter, Isabelle, is getting ready to turn 1 on May 11th & the party planning has begun! I loved “The Little Mermaid” when I was little, so I wanted to do her first birthday party with a mermaid theme. I am already getting in the spirit by creating fun mermaid graphics to use on custom apparel & invitations.

My niece asked me to design a T-shirt graphic for an upcoming family party dubbed the “Burke Bash”. It needed to be simple enough for her aunt to make the shirts with an iron-on vinyl appliqué printing process. She has a special printer that makes custom vinyl stickers that can be applied to plastic, fabric, glass, & metal. Because the party will include men, women & kids, the design needed to be fun, age appropriate plus not gender specific.

I went with a comic book style design that is fun & energetic:

The design is in black & white because I don’t know what color(s) vinyl they will use & leaves that part of the design open-ended. I can’t wait to see the final product!

Like this:

We have decided to forgo creating seasonal promotions to advertise the website OhanaWinds.com so I designed a set of generic all-encompassing graphics to display on the homepage & social media sites year round.

I recently finished painting the Maryland Flag onto our new mailbox for my husband’s birthday present. Here is how I did it:

I first downloaded a free vector drawing of the Maryland Flag design & scaled it to fit the dimensions of the mailbox. I then printed the scaled flag onto clear mylar transparencies. Then to transfer the design onto the box, I perforated the printed line art with an Xacto knife, then laid it over the mailbox & used a Sharpie to stencil the dotted lines onto the mailbox. Finally, I connected the transferred dots with the marker to get the design drawn onto the surface – seen here:

For better accuracy, I labelled the paint colors of the design with R, W, Y, & B. You can see the progress here of each paint color:

Once I got the first coat done, I had to keep working the design to touch up the edges & add more coats to enrich the colors of the paint. Here is the final coat:

To finish the mailbox, I epoxied cut out paper numbers to the front of the door & then sprayed the entire piece with a weather proof clear coat:

I can’t wait to attach the little red flag & mount it with the other neighborhood mailboxes!